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Good workout today, first back session in about 2 weeks so I kept the volume low enough so to be able to tie my shoes tomorrow lol... Went heavy, stacks stopped at the weights I used for the row and lat pull, so nice and heavy YET nice and manageable (i.e. no dead lifting to expose my injury-prone self to another back shattering issue)...

The sauna's good bruthamen, I suggest looking into it... I researched, and if done correctly, it forces the bloodflow away from your vital organs and causes the body to excrete toxins, thus making you healthier and also having an anti-aging effect on your skin... Not to mention I sweat out about 4oz. of water while in there haha...

Cardio sessions were at 20minutes for a few weeks, and I bumped it to 40minutes about 5 days ago...Today I decided to scale it back so not to drop too much too fast! Between the eating cleaner, the sauna and the cardio I think I need to monitor how much I drop and at what pace...2lb a week is my goal, should be a very lean 280-285lb'er, which is pretty f*ckin' sweet... So I scaled cardio back to 25minutes per session, steady heart rate of 138-140bpm and a total calorie burning of roughly 250cals a session... Likely burn another 200 cals a session training (give or take), so if I brun an average of 500 calories a day, that be a pound a week (of fat loss, disregard the weight of water dropped as well)... On track to my goals.

The sauna's good bruthamen, I suggest looking into it... I researched, and if done correctly, it forces the bloodflow away from your vital organs and causes the body to excrete toxins, thus making you healthier and also having an anti-aging effect on your skin... Not to mention I sweat out about 4oz. of water while in there haha...

Agreed! I am adminestring a sauna based detox program at work and it does wonders for the participants.

Its in our culture up here to go in the sauna. Lots of people who lives near the ocean have their own outdoor sauna's and use it year-round, cutting up holes in the ice and jumping in after they got heated up.

For me i do it sometimes after workout, really hot sauna - preferably 100-110 degrees celcius and then ice cold shower instantly afterwards - helluva kick in the head and body gets as new lol.

the program im administering is helping people get rid of environment toxins, pestisides, drug-residues and so on thats been stuck in their tissues for years. Lots of vitamins, exercise and long sittings in the sauna.